A lot of people saw the events that transpired at Eastern Michigan University on Saturday night and chalked it up as a one-off type of protest. A response to national events, if you will.
The reality is, this has been a long time coming in Michigan.
A lot of focus has been placed in areas such as Chicago, St. Louis and other such places where racially-charged incidences have occurred. They gain their reputations rightly; although Florida was the original starting point for all the Black Lives Matter movement, many see Ferguson and St. Louis as the catalyst of our current discussions and Chicago as the “poster child” for the tensity of race relations.